With CS1, you'd have to convert your RAWs to DNG first. But that's not a big deal. Paul On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Doug Franklin wrote:
> gfen wrote: > >> #1 Lesson: Not caring about film cost kicks ass! > > Absolutely. Mine paid for itself in film (non) costs in two and a > half > pro events, ignoring the other shooting I did. > >> I need to read the manual. > > Uh yeah. :-) > >> Antishake is pretty clever. I'm hand holding below my old cutoff, >> 1/45. > > Awesome! I can't wait to try it. > >> The wireless remote doesn't let you utilize the autowinder, or >> whatever >> we'd call it. Multiple shot feature. Eh. Whatever. > > Really? Even when the camera is in sequential exposure mode? (Or > whatever they call it) On the *ist D, single exposure mode is > shown as > a rectangle in the LCD. Sequential exposure mode is shown as > what's to > look like a stack of rectangles, sort of like > > +--------+ > | |+ > +--------+|+ > +-------+| > +------+ > >> That having a 50/1.4 turn into a 75/1.4 isn't desirable. > > No, but having my 300/4.5 "turn into" a 450/4.5 is pretty handy and > pretty cool. And having my 400/5.6 "turn into" a 600/5.6 is even > better > sometimes. Not to mention that since you're only using the center of > the lens' coverage, you typically get better sharpness out to the > edges > of the digital image. Then again, I use long lenses far more than > short > ones. > >> Wait, I have to set ISO? It does for me? Huh? What? Eh? > > I really wish the *ist D showed the ASA/ISO in the viewfinder or on > the > top LCD panel. I keep forgetting to reset the darned thing. :-) I > just > noticed a minute ago that the photos I added to the "Stuck Filter" > thread a couple of days ago were shot at ASA 1600, a leftover from the > night shots at the Petit le Mans a week ago. > >> Multiple AF points seems to be useless. > > Not for me. When I'm panning fast moving racecars, I've found that > the > AF is usually "behind" what I'm seeing in the viewfinder. I think it > has to do with the amount the car moves during the "lock time" between > the shutter contact closing and the shutter tripping. It may also > have > to do with the way the intersection of the "focus sphere" with the > moving car changes as the car rotates and I rotate. > > What happens is that if the car is moving left-to-right across my > field > of view, the most in focus part of the car is typically aft of the > cockpit, even though the camera locks focus on the center AF > point. But > I've found that if I set the selected AF point to the one just to the > right of that, I see the focus toward the front of the car just before > the shutter trips, but in the photo the part that's most in focus is > around the center of the car. That all assumes, of course, that I've > done my job in panning and not shaking and the whole thing's not > just a > mess of motion blur. > >> Evidently, raw images from the camera don't go into Photoshop? > > They can go into newer Photoshop versions (CS1 and above?) that have > Adobe Camera Raw installed. > >> I wish I knew what I was doing. > > Welcome to the club. > >> I need to learn that I have a preview screen right on teh camera, >> and I >> don't need to go home, download the photos into the PC and then >> see what I >> got. > > That's "technically" known as "chimping". It can cause you to miss > shots and cause you to be ridiculed by your photographic compatriots. > If you do it in the wrong place, like on the Jersey barrier beside a > race track, it can get you killed. :-) > >> I haven't really tried full manual mode, so I haven't had to get >> used to >> using wheels and buttons in combinations, although I rarely used >> anything >> but Av mode, anyways. > > "Hyper" mode is awesome. > >> Alas, the days of the prime lens are probably as over as the days >> of film flagship bodies. > > I sure as hell hope not. After finally acquiring a couple of > really top > notch F* and FA* primes, it would take a stupendous zoom to make me > switch. I'd rather take a separate body for each lens. Some of the > shots from those lenses are just incredible. > > The major bummer from my perspective is a buffer small enough to fill > the way I use the camera. On the MZ-S, I've shot as many as > fifteen in > quick succession as a big incident on the track unfolded. For me, the > five/six shot buffer on the *ist D is OK 90% of the time, but that > other > 10% it's really a pain in the neck waiting on the camera to write the > buffer. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
